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Increase in Global Wood Chip Trade over Ten Years
Steady increase in global trade of wood chips the past ten years; Japan and China imported 83 percent of traded hardwood chips in 2012, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly. The global pulp industry has increased its importation of wood chips the past ten years, reaching the second highest import levels on record in 2012, reports the...
Forest Mapping Study May Help Managers Identify Regions with Multiple Threat Potential
A recent study in the Journal of Forestry now offers managers a tool to help them identify regions exposed to multiple forest threats. The tool uses a novel 15-mile radius neighborhood analysis to highlight locations where threats are more concentrated relative to other areas, and identifies where multiple threats may intersect. It is a technique...
The Wise Use of Wood
“A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.” These words by Franklin D. Roosevelt mark the importance of our forests and the connection forests afford us mentally,physically, spiritually, and economically… The use of forest...

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Guest Columns

EPA Can Help Keep Working Forests as Part of the Climate Change Solution
Dave Tenny, NAFO CEO and President
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to soon propose changes to its 2010 greenhouse gas regulations (...
Guest Opinion: Lack of Timber Has Always Been the Issue
Jennifer Phillipi
Andy Kerr's May 1 Guest Opinion about my family's announcement to close Rough and Ready Lumber after 91 years...
FISTA Report: Partners In Safety
Ben Parsons, training co-ordinator, FISTA
At age 16, my dad taught how to operate a chainsaw on our family farm. The lesson was very brief, and I was at least...
Healthy Forests, Healthy Economy Can Coexist
Simon Hare, Josephine County Commissioner, The Daily Courier
With the devastating news that Cave Junction's Rough & Ready Lumber Co. is closing after more than 90 years in...
Understanding forest carbon – our complex but reliable emissions backup
Dave Cleaves, Forest Service Climate Change Advisor, USDA
No truer words have been spoken than when ecologist Frank Egler said, “Ecosystems are not only more complex...

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Industry News

‘Watering the forest for the trees’ emerging as priority for forest management
Analysis explores ways to increase water availability in face of increasing drought stress A new analysis led by the U.S. Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest Research Station encourages resource...
Land use changes, housing demographics shift in Washington State
A recent government report reveals that the number of houses in dispersed rural settings in western Washington has doubled over the past 30 years, and that 20 percent of nonfederal land is currently...
Imports of Logs and Lumber to China up Over Ten Percent the First Four Months of 2013
Importation of logs and lumber to China were up over ten percent the first four months of 2013 after a reduction in wood demand during2012, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly.  Chinese...
The Global Forest Industry in 1Q 2013
The Global Sawlog Price Index (GSPI) was up 2.4 percent to US$86.33/m3 from the 4Q/12, the biggest quarter-to-quarter increase since early 2011. The Softwood Wood Fiber Price Index (SFPI) in the 1Q/...
Habitat for Humanity Canada Executive Joins Sustainable Forestry Initiative Board
Mark Rodgers, Chief Operating Officer of Habitat for Humanity Canada, has been elected to the independent Sustainable Forestry Initiative Inc. (SFI®) Board of Directors. Dr. Rodgers is a two-time...
West Coast Log and Lumber Exports Decrease
Log and lumber exports from the West coast plummeted in the first quarter of 2013 according to a Forest Service research economist. Log exports dropped 33 percent: from 362 million board feet in the...

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Forest Photos

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Hundreds of small streams like this one criss-cross industrial forest land in western Oregon and Washington. They provide countless miles of habitat for spawning salmon and steelhead, and thus must be protected from the impacts of nearby timber harvests. No harvest buffer zones insure that these remain quiet hideaways seldom seen by people.